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Artist: Nancy Marine | Location: Columbia, SC

Cra-Cra Chair

Is a chair still a chair if you can't actually sit down on it? Are crayons still crayons if you can't color with them? How is a functional object defined? Does it still maintain its identify if its function has changed? What about...people? Is an artist really an artist if they aren't actively creating art? Is a musician something you are...or something you do? We define ourselves and our world around us with limited vocabulary and restrictive expectations. We look to others to validate our views and opinions. But who has the ultimate say? Is it a chair? Is it crayons? Or maybe now, it is something different all together. Now, it is art.

Artist Biography

Nancy Marine

Columbia, SC

Miss Marine, aka the Art Room Queen, expresses her deep love of children 's art (and especially children's art supplies) in her own, colorful world of art and fashion. Crayons are her absolute favorite. She shares, "The way they smell and feel, how easily they break and melt--not to mention the incredible variety of colors--I love everything about crayons. Except how many old, broken crayons accumulate in my supply closet every year." Using her never-ending supply of ''gently used" crayons, Nancy has built large-scale crayon mosaics, melted crayon encaustic paintings, cut and drilled crayon-bead jewelry and even worn clothes made with crayons on the Runaway Runway, a recycled-materials fashion competition. Both of her runway awards, 2013 Rocking the Runway Top Model award and 2016 Funky Junk award were crayon-based designs. Miss Marine states, "I've been teaching elementary art so long, crayons have become a part of who I am--under my nails, ground into my floor, melted in my pockets, flowing in veins and in every cell in my body."

ArtFields is a charitable program and event sponsored by Lake City Creative Alliance, which is a federally-recognized Section 501(c)(3) organization located in Lake City, South Carolina. Its mission is to enhance the area schools and greater community through both creative and audience development by fostering a culturally-rich environment, connecting our communities through the arts, integrating arts into the education system, and serving as the lead in cultivating and advancing our region's creative economy.